Yosh Kuromiya (April, 1923 – July 24, 2018) was an American artist and landscape architect. Kuromiya was born in

Sierra Madre, California Sierra Madre (Spanish for "mother range") is a city in Los Angeles County, California, whose population was 10,917 at the 2010 U.S. Census, up from 10,580 at the time of the 2000 U.S. Census. The city is in the foothills of the San Gabriel Vall ...

in 1923. He studied art at

Pasadena Junior College Pasadena City College (PCC) is a public community college in Pasadena, California. History Pasadena City College was founded in 1924 as Pasadena Junior College. From 1928 to 1953, it operated as a four-year junior college, combining the la ...

prior to being sent to the

Heart Mountain Relocation Center The Heart Mountain War Relocation Center, named after nearby Heart Mountain and located midway between the northwest Wyoming towns of Cody and Powell, was one of ten concentration camps used for the internment of Japanese Americans evicted d ...

in 1942, following the signing of

Executive Order 9066 Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. This order authorized the secretary of war to prescribe certain ...

, as part of the World War II Internment of Japanese Americans. At the internment camp, he kept busy by drawing and working on other war time projects. Upset at not being treated as a full citizen of the United States, he resisted the draft inside camp in 1944 and was sent to prison. In 1947 Kuromiya, along with other Nisei draft resisters, were pardoned by President Harry Truman. In 1957, Kuromiya went back to college and received his state license as a landscape architect from Polytechnic College and went on to have a career designing private gardens. In the 1960s, Kuromiya was involved in the civil rights movement. He also participated in the gay rights movement.

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* 1923 births 2018 deaths Pasadena City College alumni People from Sierra Madre, California Japanese-American internees American artists of Japanese descent American artists American landscape architects {{US-architect-stub